All posts tagged: people mover

Submission – Sea-Tac Airport People Mover Diagram, 2021

October 27, 2021
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Submitted by Chris, who says: Sea-Tac has three inter-terminal people mover systems. They’ve introduced a new system map with color routing designations. Transit Maps says: Boy, this diagram makes really hard work out of something fairly simple. The colour-coding is fine if it helps people find the right train to get to their terminal, though I personally never had a problem with understanding that the North train loop took me to the North satellite terminal. […]

Submission – Official Map: Las Colinas APT System, Irving, Texas

May 31, 2016
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Submitted by Louis Alvarez, who says: I thought you might enjoy this recent artifact of one of the weirdest transit systems in the US: the four-station, two line people mover that serves the Las Colinas suburban development near Dallas. (For me, the most eccentric thing about the system is that despite what one might expect, the cars are manned by human drivers who come to pick you up on request.) The map is such a festival of poor […]

Official Map: JFK Airport AirTrain Map, New York, 2011

April 30, 2012
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This map is at the request of an anonymous follower, who wrote this about this map: Truly terrible transit map that deserves a lashing: the AirTrain JFK. Way too complicated for something that should be fairly simple. Even worse are the TV screens in the stations showing information about where the train at each platform is going, which completely obscure the most important information. Now, I can’t comment on the info screens, as I’ve never […]

Official Map: Singapore MRT/LRT System Map, 2012

January 29, 2012
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Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system only opened in 1987, but has expanded greatly since then and now boasts 90 stations and almost 150 kilometres of lines. It is supplemented by the LRT, which is not a true light rail system, but is more like an automated people mover that serves the high density apartment blocks prevalent in land-poor Singapore. In earlier versions of the map, I believe that the stylised “S” logo in the […]